Software hack: Enabling 16 Pipelines On Your GeForce 6800

jmke · 30th September 2004, 16:08

We recently reported that Alexey Nikolaychuk, the author of RivaTuner, has found the mechanism, which NVIDIA cards use to set 12 or 16 pipelines on GeForce 6800 and 6800GT/Ultra, respectively. Of course, if a card has 4 offline pipelines defective, it will produce artefacts and we can't guarantee that any GeForce 6800 can be remade into a 6800GT!

We continued our examinations and finally Alexey found the key allowing to IGNORE hardware pipeline disabling. Naturally we expected artefacts, as they don´t disable pipelines just for fun.

YOU DON´T NEED TO MESS WITH BIOS to perform operations above.

http://www.digit-life.com/news.html?108919

30th September 2004, 19:12

i think its already guaranteed that every 6800 is a 4 screwed pipes ultra/GT chip...

jmke · 30th September 2004, 19:32

?
not so according this mod

Fable @ Bytesector

although it's a hardmod, it's basically enables the same things on the card

30th September 2004, 16:08	#1
jmke Madshrimp Join Date: May 2002 Location: 7090/Belgium Posts: 79,021	Software hack: Enabling 16 Pipelines On Your GeForce 6800 We recently reported that Alexey Nikolaychuk, the author of RivaTuner, has found the mechanism, which NVIDIA cards use to set 12 or 16 pipelines on GeForce 6800 and 6800GT/Ultra, respectively. Of course, if a card has 4 offline pipelines defective, it will produce artefacts and we can't guarantee that any GeForce 6800 can be remade into a 6800GT! We continued our examinations and finally Alexey found the key allowing to IGNORE hardware pipeline disabling. Naturally we expected artefacts, as they don´t disable pipelines just for fun. YOU DON´T NEED TO MESS WITH BIOS to perform operations above. http://www.digit-life.com/news.html?108919 __________________

30th September 2004, 19:32	#3
jmke Madshrimp Join Date: May 2002 Location: 7090/Belgium Posts: 79,021	? not so according this mod Fable @ Bytesector although it's a hardmod, it's basically enables the same things on the card __________________

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30th September 2004, 19:12	#2
IKilledMyAGOIA Posts: n/a	i think its already guaranteed that every 6800 is a 4 screwed pipes ultra/GT chip...